Our Research-Based Curriculum
The Live Big Curriculum meets ESSA Level 4 Criteria
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Our Core Curriculum consists of 5 Modules, each with 5 individual Lessons that empower students (grades 4-12) to connect to their mind, body, and character.
The Core Curriculum Lessons are designed to build upon each other, creating a series of foundational skills in the areas of Confidence, Resilience, and Self-Leadership.
Take a look at what’s covered in each Module of our Core Curriculum
Module 1: Connect. Create. Be.
The students explore & learn:
What it means to Live Big and how to create confidence, resilience, and self-leadership skills
How to identify their Limiting Beliefs and separate their identity from their negative self-talk (Voice of Small)
How to reframe their Limiting Beliefs into Big Beliefs to create more choice in their lives
The ways our bodies speak to us, how bodies hold tension, and how to release tension using The Edges of My Body
How to recognize and celebrate the essence of who they are (their character) with the I Am activity
Module 2: Create Confidence
The students explore & learn:
A new definition of confidence that focuses on knowing who they are and believing in their capability and possibility
How their Voice of Small wants them to be perfect and how to choose to leave their comfort zone, which requires moving through the fear and learning zones to the growth zone
How their body creates a series of Safety Shapes to keep them safe, and how these shapes impact their ability to be confident
What it's like when they have the most confidence and how to create this confidence no matter what they’re doing, who they’re with, or the situation they’re in
How to move out of their Safety Shape and create confidence in their bodies at any moment
Module 3: Create Resilience
The students explore & learn:
A new definition of resilience that focuses on the ability to cope with stress and resource yourself rather than mental "toughness” or pushing through
Why it's important to create practices and have tools for building and maintaining resilience
How to locate where stress lives (and how it feels) in their body and practice releasing it through body scanning, visualization, and movement
How to build their baseline and create in-the-moment resilience by filling their Resilience Jar
The power of music to help them reconnect to self, regulate their energy, and shift their state
Module 4: Create Self-Leadership
The students learn & explore:
What self-leadership is and how to be a leader in their life
The difference between reacting automatically (Chain Reaction) and choosing an aligned response, especially in challenging situations
How to Pause, Connect, Choose how they respond in life
How to notice and grow awareness of where they feel emotions in their body
Module 5: Be PowerFULL
The students explore & learn:
What it means to be PowerFULL and live a big life
How to examine their relationship with fear, why it holds them back, and how it can shape how they show up in the world
How to use movement to generate a feeling of being PowerFULL in their body
How to create and be their own version of PowerFULL
How to support each other to be PowerFULL
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